An edition of At Home in a Nursing Home (2023)
At Home in a Nursing Home
An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
By Angela Rong Yang Zhang
Publish Date
2023
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Language
eng
Pages
218
Description:
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way. In an ethnographic study of how elderly residents can be given the right care, this book provides a new route into the bodily realities of ageing. It is a vital contribution to the search for alternative approaches to aged care provision. **Contents** At Home in a Nursing Home -- Contents -- Illustrations and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part I. Walking -- Chapter 1. Watching Each Step -- Chapter 2. Beyond Wandering -- Chapter 3. Walking Out of the Freeze -- Chapter 4. Living in the Tension -between Walking and Not Walking -- Part II. Care -- Chapter 5. Care as Multiplicities -- Chapter 6. Caring at the Threshold of Life and Death -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Glossary -- References -- Index.